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Pakistan: The Kerry Lugar Bill

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Faisal Kapadia - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - The Kerry Luger bill is essentially a non military aid package granted to Pakistan by the U.S in view of its precarious economic condition due to its indulgence in the war on terror as a front line allied state. This bill grants Pakistan $1.5 billion annually for five years and comes along with stringent conditions on how to distribute and invest this money.

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India Battles the Flu and Recession, Too

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Sandip Roy - Sep. 06 (Special Report) - In India, the media are struggling to find new angles to cover the H1N1 virus, which is quickly becoming a chronic front-page story. The Times of India published the photographs of random Indians and their ideas of fail-safe swine flu prevention tactics. One involved praying. Another involved raw partridge. Spritzing with anti-bacterial liquids is epidemic. NAM editor Sandip Roy reports from Bengaluru.

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"For the 64th Time: No More Nuclear War"

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat - Aug. 10 (Other) - We speak with nuclear physicist and disarmament activist Pervez Hoodbhoy, peace activist Frida Berrigan, and Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers.

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India: Overhaul Abusive, Failing Police System

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

hrw.org - Aug. 05 (Special Report) - "India is modernizing rapidly, but the police continue to use their old methods: abuse and threats," said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "It's time for the government to stop talking about reform and fix the system."

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Pak Lets Off 26/11 Mastermind Saeed

Mon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

iStream.in - Aug. 03 (News Report) - The case hearing against Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the Mumbai terror attack, adjourned indefinitely by Pakistan's Supreme Court.

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Shadow diplomacy

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Frontline (India) - By Vijay Prashad - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - Most analysts of U.S. foreign policy in South Asia agree that there is pressure from within Islamabad and New Delhi to reopen the discussions. For Pakistan, the situation is fairly transparent. Instability along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and the leakage of jehadi ambitions towards Islamabad have shifted the government’s priorities away from India: no longer the easy thought that it is from New Delhi that all of Pakistan’s problems hail.

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Profile: Lashkar-e-Taiba (Army of the Pure)

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Council on Foreign Relations - Jul. 28 (Special Report) - The Indian government has often accused the group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) of terrorist attacks, including the November 2008 deadly assault in Mumbai that killed nearly two hundred people and injured more than three hundred. LeT is among several banned Pakistani militant groups that experts say received backing from Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, to fight in Indian-administered Kashmir. Analysts say the group continues to operate freely inside Pakistan under a different name and has now become a global terrorist organization.

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Decisive Action Taken Against Baitullah Mehsud: Rehman Malik

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

A Pakistan News - Jul. 28 (News Report) - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has claimed that India is interfering in Balochistan via Afghanistan by supplying weapons to local insurgents. Rehman, in an exclusive interview with French TV, also maintained that a “decisive action” is being taken against the chief of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Baitullah Mehsud. Malik said that India is supplying weapons to terrorists and [...]

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Biotech firms outsource to Asia

Mon, 18 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Tom Abate - May. 18 (Special Report) - The global financial crisis has hurt biotechnology, an industry in which it can take a billion dollars and 10 years to create a marketable medicine. But a survey of worldwide industry trends suggests that the funding shortage hitting North American and European market leaders could benefit emerging biotech clusters in Singapore, India and China.

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In India, Congress wins big

Sat, 16 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jason Overdorf - May. 16 (News Report) - In a shockingly one-sided victory, the ruling Congress Party's secular alliance defeated the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies in the month-long Indian general election, local media reported Saturday as results flooded in.

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Meet India's first porn star

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Jason Overdorf - May. 04 (News Report) - NEW DELHI — Thanks to an anonymous group of computer geeks, India's first international Internet porn star is fast becoming this conservative country's answer to Wonder Woman — and Monica Lewinsky. But here's the trick: The steamy web seductress is a cartoon. Though pornography is illegal in India, Savita Bhabhi's sexual misadventures, published on savitabhabhi.com with scripts based on fantasies submitted by fans, have attracted a huge following.

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India: Embracing Girls

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - May. 01 (Special Report) - It should be a happy event having a daughter in the family, but for some women in India and a few other Asian countries it is seen as a burden. Many pregnant women experience intense pressure from family members to find out the sex of their fetuses and to abort the females. The UN Population Fund is working hard in India to educate people about gender equality and eradicate the problems cause by gender prejudices.

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High youth turnout expected in India elections

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Saritha Rai - Apr. 14 (Special Report) - Until now, “cool” was an unheard-of description for India's complex politics, which include an alphabet soup of political parties, aging leaders and candidates tainted by crime and corruption. Young educated Indians previously disdained the process, and most didn't bother to show up at the voting booth.

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Taliban v. Taliban

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The London Review of Books - By Graham Usher - Apr. 12 (Special Report) - ... what does it mean to be ‘anti-Pakistan’? The short answer is pro-India, in practice if not intent. Insurgents in the tribal areas are deemed anti-Pakistani if their actions advance the perceived goals of India in Afghanistan. They are pro-Pakistani as long as they don’t attack the Pakistani state or army, even if they launch attacks against Nato forces in Afghanistan, Islamabad’s supposed allies in the ‘war on terror’. Indeed, the Afghan Taliban is considered an ‘asset’, a hedge against the day when the US and Nato leave, but also a counter to India’s expanding influence in Afghanistan.

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The Reva: Why Americans May Never See the Best New Car on the Road

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Daniel Pepper, - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - The Reva is the world's most successful electric vehicle. Manufactured on the outskirts of the south Indian city of Bangalore, it is as popular there as it is on the streets of London. Cumulatively it has been driven a combined 55 million kilometers in 20 major cities around the world.

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The Nano lands in India

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Royal Ford - Mar. 24 (Special Report) - Tata is calling the Nano the "people's car," but I think that was long ago taken by a German outfit called Volkswagen. In fact, the Nano sounds very familiar in its presentation: 34 horsepower, engine in the rear, rear-wheel drive, non-collapsing steering wheel, no airbags, no rear seatbelts, no ABS, no traction control, no air conditioning, no power steering.

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Tobacco cessation can piggy-back ride on health services

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

citizen-news.org - By Shobha Shukla - Mar. 11 (Special Report) - The importance of integrating tobacco cessation with the existing healthcare services was emphasized by Professor (Dr) Rama Kant, Head of the Department of Surgery, CSM Medical University, Lucknow and a World Health Organization (WHO) Director General’s Awardee (2005). He was speaking at the ongoing 14th World Conference on Tobacco Or Health (WCTOH) in Mumbai.

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NATO cautions Pak over truce with Taliban

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Sify - By AP Report - Feb. 19 (News Report) - "The government is reneging on its duty to protect the human rights of people from Swat Valley by handing them over to Taliban insurgents," said Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director

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Pak wants to resume talks with India soon

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

A Pakistan News - Feb. 17 (News Report) - Pakistan wants the “composite dialogue” with India to be resumed as soon as possible as it is committed to friendly relations with all its neighbours, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Tuesday.

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India: A million Romeos, a million Juliets

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Jason Overdorf - Feb. 14 (Special Report) - In India, the fundamentalist thugs who terrorize young couples every Valentine's Day aren't the only forces aligned against romance. With the traditional institution of the arranged marriage under pressure — threatening to break down the boundaries of caste and creed — teachers, neighbors, the police and even sometimes the courts conspire to make sure young people follow their parents' wishes.

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Shining in rural India

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Hindu Business Line - By Rasheeda Bhagat - Feb. 06 (Special Report) - [Note: BPO is an abbreviation for Business Process Outsourcing] The Atlas Documentary Facilitators Company is a rural BPO wholly owned by HDFC Bank. Set up in the temple town of Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, it takes care of the bank’s backroom operations such as opening of new accounts, foreclosure of loans and credit card-related activities. The 550-odd employees at this BPO, which was started in July 2008, are graduates and were selected and given preliminary training by the government-run EGMM (Employment Generation Marketing Mission), which works in tandem with the Department of Rural Development. A unique characteristic of all the workers at this BPO is their rural background; about 55 per cent are women, they are first-generation graduates, and some the sole graduate from their village.

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Protesters ask Obama to stop Pakistan's threat against India

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Kerala - By Arun Kumar - Jan. 23 (Special Report) - Amidst all the jubilation surrounding Barack Obama's inauguration, there were some protesters too, with one group asking the new president to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and Pakistan's threat against India. Protesters from the Coalition for Peace, consisting of some Jewish, Hindu and Christian organisations, hung signs along a fence in Lafayette Park across the White House, demanding an end to Islamic radicalism and Middle East oil imports. The group also expressed its support for Israel's invasion of Gaza. One of the group's leaders said the message was not so much a protest but a plea. "It is directed toward Barack Obama in that we want him to make a clear statement to stop Iran's march to nuclear weapons and Pakistan's threat against India," Marion Dreyfus of the coalition said through a police fence separating the park from the street. "We are also supporting Israel against the aggression of Hamas in Gaza."

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Requiem for Purity

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Citizen News Service - By Shobha Shukla - Jan. 08 (Special Report) - The shocking news of the alleged gruesome death of Dr Iffat Kamal has benumbed my senses. She, a doctor by profession, was allegedly assaulted by her husband in her house at Dundee, Scotland on 10 December 2008, and after battling for ten days, succumbed to her injuries. That she, a professionally qualified and financially independent person became a prey of the brutality of her husband, has once again put a question mark on all the so called shining progress made by Indian women in recent times.

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Pakistani Confesses to Mumbai Attacks: Official

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Kathy Gannon - Dec. 31 (News Report) - A militant arrested in Pakistan has confessed involvement in the Mumbai terror attacks and is giving investigators details of the plot, a senior Pakistani government official said Wednesday. The revelation could add to pressure on Islamabad to either bring Zarar Shah and other suspects to trial or extradite them to India. "(Shah) has made some statement that he was involved," said the government official, without providing specific details. "I can tell you that he is singing."

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Pakistan Moves Thousands Of Troops Toward Indian Border

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Chris Brummitt - Dec. 26 (News Report) - Pakistan began moving thousands of troops from the Afghan border toward India, officials and witnesses said Friday, raising tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors and possibly undermining the U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban. The country also announced that it was canceling all military leave in the aftermath of last month's terror attack on the Indian financial capital of Mumbai. India has blamed Pakistani militants for the terrifying three-day siege; Pakistan has demanded that India back this up with better evidence.

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